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Personal data Klaas Jans Fongers 


Household of Klaas Jans Fongers

(1) He is married to Martha Luurts Boekholt.

They got married on June 15, 1867 at Grootegast (Gr), he was 28 years old.Source 3


(2) He is married to Gelske Sytzes Leegstra.

They got married about 1880 at Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten.


Child(ren):

  1. Wietske Fongers  1880-1925

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Klaas Jans Fongers

Klaas Jans Fongers
1839-1918

(1) 1867

Martha Luurts Boekholt
1845-< 1880

(2) ± 1880

Gelske Sytzes Leegstra
1849-1929

Wietske Fongers
1880-1925

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Warffum 1839
  2. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=118866808
  3. Huwelijksregister Grootegast 1867

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Historical events

Birthday February 19, 1839

  • The temperature on February 19, 1839 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1839: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 19 » The British East India Company captures Aden.
    • April 19 » The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
    • June 3 » In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
    • June 22 » Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
    • August 19 » The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
    • November 17 » Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.

Day of marriage June 15, 1867

  • The temperature on June 15, 1867 was about 14.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
    • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
    • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
    • May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
    • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
    • December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).

Day of death October 6, 1918

  • The temperature on October 6, 1918 was between 8.2 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
    • January 27 » Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.
    • February 25 » German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.
    • August 13 » Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
    • September 29 » The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.
    • November 3 » Austria-Hungary enters into the Armistice of Villa Giusti with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.


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